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Can Kanban and Scrum work together?
Scrum.org
JANUARY 21, 2020
Students and clients ask us “Can Kanban and Scrum work together?” all the time. The answer is an emphatic, “Of course!” However, what do you mean by “Kanban”?
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5 practices that help with agile software development
Scrum.org
JANUARY 19, 2020
Often we work harder in Scrum teams, but not necessarily smarter. Therefore the way we work has to change. Five tips for more effective agile work. As a technical Scrum Master and technical Agile Coach, I travel a lot with teams and accompany them on their adventures.
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How do you know you’re not involving stakeholders?
Scrum.org
JANUARY 15, 2020
This post is an excerpt from the book that we’re writing, the ‘ Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ’. It’s our way of delivering small increments and involving our stakeholders: you, the reader. So we’d love to hear your feedback, encouragements and wild ideas.
Applying Scrum Patterns in Practice
Scrum.org
JANUARY 15, 2020
In my first article , I explained what Scrum Patterns are and why they could be useful for you in your transformation. The second article explained how to select the Scrum Patterns from the Pattern Languages. .
Business Agile: A Roadmap for Transforming Your Management & Adapting to the VUCA Environment
Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager
Businesses everywhere are trying to “get business agile”—but it’s not easy to adapt to becoming this adaptive. How can conventional organizations succeed in this transformation? In this webinar, Peter Taylor will walk through the change process step by step, and look at a tried and tested transformation roadmap: benefits are outlined, solutions to common challenges offered, and tried and tested methods and tools provided. It will be a guide towards a decentralized and management style that offers more successful decision making through collaboration.
Create Faster and More Accurate Forecasts using Probabilities
Scrum.org
JANUARY 15, 2020
The most important question to stakeholders is often “When can it be done?” There is a lot that goes into answering that seemingly simple question. What is involved in the work? What else are we doing? What risks are there? The questions go on and on.
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Product Mindset: Encouraging Ownership in a Scrum Team
Scrum.org
JANUARY 13, 2020
TL; DR: Product Mindset and OWnership in Scrum Teams. There is one product, one Product Owner, one Product Backlog — a simple rule.
Improving Sprint Retrospective with Scrum Patterns
Scrum.org
JANUARY 11, 2020
When Scrum Teams discuss too many problems during the Retrospective they may lose focus. That results in shallow decisions that barely scratch the surface. Teams are disappointed and lose faith in the Sprint Retrospective. Let’s see how to improve the event with the Scrum Patterns.
Effective Stakeholder Management
Scrum.org
JANUARY 21, 2020
When it comes to Product Ownership, there are a couple of things that are essential to get the job done right. Effective stakeholder management is one of them!
DoD EvoCycle 2.0 - A Simple Technique to Effectively Manage your Definition of "Done"
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
A couple of month ago I wrote a small blog about the DoD EvoCycle. A simple technique that I use to help the Development Team take ownership in managing their Defnition of Done. As time passes I've mondified the DoD EvoCycle to make it simplier and more intuitive.
BI Buyers Guide: Embedding Analytics in Your Software
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21 Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
TL; DR: Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns. What event could better embody Scrum’s principle of empiricism than the Sprint Retrospective?
Systems Thinking, Episode #1 What are Wicked Problems and why should I care?
Scrum.org
JANUARY 12, 2020
In a series of blog posts, I want to share how you can use Systems Thinking to resolve complex problems. Systems Thinking aims at understanding and possibly solving complex problems. In this episode, I will focus on complex adaptive problems, also known as “Wicked Problems”.
Koos Coach Comic: Actively doing nothing
Scrum.org
JANUARY 17, 2020
In my daily life as a Scrum Master, I witness many crazy situations. I want to share my experiences via this comic series featuring Koos Coach, the silly Scrum Master struggling to understand and master Scrum.
Collaboration by Examples
Scrum.org
JANUARY 13, 2020
Collaboration is key to solve complex problems. I’ve always suffered from the evident lack of collaboration between people. It’s professionally frustrating when you’ve experienced effective teamwork. ???? Article en français sur notre site web ????.
2019 State of Engineering Performance Management Report
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More than 100 software leaders were asked how they manage and measure engineering performance. How do the findings stack up to your own experience? The report includes the top engineering challenges and the most used performance metrics.
How much autonomy should teams get from their agile leader?
Scrum.org
JANUARY 9, 2020
The agile movement really has changed the way we lead our people. Giving them more freedom and autonomy to do their job often improves the quality, productivity ánd happiness of the people.
Planning an Adoption With Scrum Patterns
Scrum.org
JANUARY 4, 2020
How to start an Agile transformation? What are the initial steps? In this article I explain how transformations could be planned using Scrum Patterns and systems thinking. Study Organizational Context.
Help them with the Why
Scrum.org
JANUARY 19, 2020
How many times a day are you walking into the conversation where people jump into discussing solutions that lead nowhere, lack a clear purpose for the people involved in the conversation, don’t make sense altogether without the additional “why” discussion?
How to select Scrum Patterns
Scrum.org
JANUARY 4, 2020
In my earlier article , I explained what Scrum Patterns are and why they could be useful for you in your transformation. In this blog, I discuss how to select and use the Scrum Patterns from the Pattern Languages. Scrum Pattern Languages.
More Effective Agile Leadership
Speaker: Steve McConnell, CEO, Construx Software
In this talk, Steve McConnell, CEO of Construx Software, distills hundreds of companies’-worth of real-world experience into the proven Agile leadership practices that work best. Steve will seamlessly thread together traditional approaches, early Agile approaches, modern Agile approaches, and the principles and context that underlie them all—creating an invaluable resource for Agile leaders, their teams, and their organizations.
Showcase, Show & Tell or Sprint Review.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 17, 2020
The topic of my blog today is another one that is common on client’s sites. The use of the terms Showcase, Show & Tell or Sprint Review. In this situation, there is likely to be a broad mix of people fulfilling the Scrum Master roles.
Ten questions you might want to ask yourself about your Scrum
Scrum.org
JANUARY 21, 2020
I call myself a Scrum Caretaker. I aspire inspiring people using Scrum. I prefer sharing positive experiences and cases that demonstrate how amazing working with Scrum can be, what problems can be tackled and how, the level of excellence we can build into our products, how Scrum can engage people.
The Scrum Master Role and The Four Agreements
Scrum.org
JANUARY 19, 2020
I recently read the book The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom. And I noticed strong correlations with what it takes to be an effective Scrum Master. I also see how some of these concepts show up throughout my Scrum Master: Grow 6-week online video course.
Scrum Mastery Requires Humility: My New Year's Resolution
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 31, 2019
. It’s that time again. The end of the year, where many of us take a step back to reflect on the year that will almost be over soon and create another new year resolution. Like many of you, I do the same. On my last year life retrospectives, I wrote about servant leadership.
The Essential Guide to Building Analytic Applications
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Faking Agile Metrics or Cooking the Agile Books
Scrum.org
OCTOBER 7, 2019
TL; DR: Faking Agile Metrics — An Eye-Opening Exercise. Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity.
The Product Owner and Scrum Master symbiosis
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 31, 2019
Originally posted on www.debooij.training. Any Product Owner faces challenges in the organization that are not directly related to the content and value of the product.
15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
TL; DR: 15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns. Are we still on the right track? Answering this question in a collaborative effort of the Scrum Team as well as internal (and external) stakeholders is the purpose of the Sprint Review.
Actual stakeholders? Or just your audience?
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 27, 2019
This post is an excerpt from the book that we’re writing, the ‘Zombie Scrum Survival Guide’. It’s our way of delivering small increments and involving our stakeholders. So we’d love to hear your feedback, encouragements and wild ideas. You can also listen to us reading this post on our podcast.
Architect Your Organization for Effectiveness, Productivity, and Joy
Speaker: Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.
As a senior software leader, you likely spend more time working on the architecture of your systems than the architecture of your organization. Yet, structuring our teams and organizations is a critical factor for success. In fact, the impact of software architecture parallels the impact of organizational structure. We are excited to welcome Ron Lichty, co-author of a seminal book on managing software teams and a well-known speaker, he’ll speak to organizing for effectiveness, productivity and joy.
What Really Causes Technical Debt?
Scrum.org
JANUARY 9, 2020
Advances in Technology, Maintenance & Updates are not Technical Debt. Although I am going to use the term technical debt in this discussion.
Mind your language (if you want to be Agile)
Scrum.org
OCTOBER 7, 2019
There are four key words in the first value of the Agile Manifesto: “ Individuals and their interactions over processes and tools ”. Most of us can spend countless hours debating the value of focusing on people and the dangers related to focusing on processes and tools.
Agile Transformation with Liberating Structures
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Liberating Structures are a very popular toolkit for Scrum Masters these days. Conferences, trainings and meetings make heavy use of them. Of course Liberating Structures also find their way into the Scrum events, for very good reasons.
Business Efficiency? Watch the Ball, not the Player
Scrum.org
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
In football, the team that wins is the one that gets the ball in the other team’s goal most times. Not the one that runs the most. What matters most is what is happening to the ball. So, we need to watch the ball, not the player. Business is no different.
The Definitive Guide to Predictive Analytics
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Create A More Engaging Sprint Review With This String Of Liberating Structures
Scrum.org
JANUARY 7, 2020
Do you frequently find yourself in Sprint Reviews that only consist of a PowerPoint presentation? Or entirely without users, customers and other stakeholders present?
Koos Coach comic: We need Scrum
Scrum.org
JANUARY 13, 2020
A comic series featuring Koos Coach, the silly Scrum Master struggling to understand and master Scrum. In this episode: Adopting Scrum involves a deep change in the mindset of people and cannot be taken lightheartedly.
The Zombie Scrum Survival Guide
Scrum.org
DECEMBER 24, 2019
An article by Johannes Schartau , co-author of the Zombie Scrum Survival Guide. It was early 2008 when an Agile Coach sat alone in an office in Western Europe. The dim light of his desk lamp did its best to drive the evening’s gloom away. The man was lost in thought, puzzled by the day’s events.
The Scrum Process Explained
Scrum.org
JANUARY 3, 2020
The Basics. Within the scrum process, there are eleven basic elements that make up the framework. 3 roles, 3 artifacts, and 5 events. Practitioners need to learn to apply and understand the principles behind these in order to obtain the full benefits of the scrum process.
An Adult Conversation About Estimates
Speaker: Beekey Cheung, Software Consultant, Professor Beekums, LLC
Estimates are a contentious topic in software development. Most of our development teams hate providing estimates and many managers are starting to view them as unnecessary. As senior software leaders, how can we determine whether estimates are helpful or harmful to our teams? We are excited to be joined by Beekey Cheung, a software consultant and blogger known as Professor Beekums, who has helped many leaders and teams go from fearing estimates to using them appropriately. He'll walk us through the value of estimates, how to overcome the hesitancy many have in giving them, and how to provide better estimates.
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